On the recordFebruary 26, 2003
The letter that was sent to me was so toxic that two people who touched it died. Died. We had not canceled a single hearing. In fact, on one day when the Senate was being evacuated because we had scheduled a time to vote out some of President Bush's nominees, I literally grabbed Senators and held them here long enough to vote out some of President Bush's nominees. I say this knowing that when the Republicans were in charge and President Clinton was in office, we sometimes went 8 or 9 months without even having a vote on nominees. We were doing it several times a month.
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